That explains the ridiculous statement the minister made that Ben jumped on.
Who misled the Minister Albanese over Qantas-Emirates? | Plane Talking
The Flying Kangaroo has a special place in the heart of all Australians and this is good news for Australian travellers and the Australian economy.
The Qantas-Emirates alliance means that Qantas, the flying kangaroo invoked with such affection by the minister, has cut off Australians using Brisbane, Adelaide and Perth airports from using Qantas flights to London, and is instead trying to punt them onto Emirates flights.
Does the minister imagine that those travellers will not feel regret, in their hearts, that Qantas has dropped them from being able to fly all the way to London on Qantas aircraft?
Does the minister realise that when foreign business travellers now fly from their capitals in Europe or the UK to Perth, our resource capital, or Brisbane, the rising giant among eastern cities, or Adelaide, the defence capital of Australia, they-won’t-be-able-to-even-choose-to-fly Qantas?
Our national carrier wants them to fly Emirates, a national-carrier-of-the-UAE.
Could the Minister explain how making Qantas even smaller in the international market than it has already made itself this century, is actually going to make Australians value their iconic airline even more, even as it continues to disappear?
Watching the doco on reporter murders in Russia a while back I think the sort of journos they kill are like Ben. Rude bastards that tell it like it is.